I'm sure at the time getting "electric" or "mechanical" wasn't cheap. But those companies that invested in the technology and got the infrastructure put in to support them sure benefitted.
I just don't get the US's non-participation in this treaty. Cutting pollution is good for the economy. Making green products requires a high level of technological sophistication which is supposed to be our specialty, right? If everyone is getting green and we have the sophisticated products necessary we make money, right?
I guess we'll just have to be happy shipping fibers and scrap metal and timber to Asia and getting back manufactured goods.
200 years ago we were a materials colony and market for a power on the other side of the Atlantic. Now we're a materials colony and market for a power on the other side of the Pacific.
Yes, there are problems, but can you imagine the patch problems Windows would have in Windows Update wasn't out there? Statistically zero home users would apply patches.
The problem is with the OS not the patching system. Get off your high horse.
If you want compliant little robots this is a great system.
Seriously, I know a woman who was actually sat down by her parents and told they were concerned she wasn't having enough fun in college. That's not the kind of kid I want to raise.
Yes, kids get in trouble, but they also grow because of the ways they get out of trouble. If you keep them nice and isolated and know where they are at all times that kid is going to get blindsided hard when he reaches the real world.
I thought the reason outsourcing went to India was that they had high educational standards.
For example, they don't get taught that dinosaur fossils are actually demon bones or that the world began about 10,000 years ago (both real beliefs in many fundie communities).
"Yeah, I was surfing and my computer locked up."
"Lemme see. Well, 'cording to our records you are a heathen. The Lord has seized up your browser."
"What?"
"Get down on your knees and beg forgiveness from the Lord and if your heart is true your IP shall be restored! Pray! Pray for all you're worth, boy!"
Actually, I think it's a good idea, if somewhat revealing. Congratulations, parts of America are now ALMOST as low wage as third world countries. Mission Accomplished.
Did I say I wanted nuclear development to stop? Jesus, shirley, unbunch your panties.
Personally, I'd prefer we work on the technologies that don't cause my Northern Illinois electric bill to be higher than every other damn state in the nation. THAT'S the benefit of nuclear for you.
Actually there have been. In at least one instance the truck overturned and slid off the road due to ice. There was no release from the casks. There have been 72 incidents (mostly involving cask sweating from loading) and 11 accidents with transports since the 50's.
My biggest beef about nukes is that we have the highest damn electrical rates in the country because ComEd overbuilt the damn things in Illinois and manage them poorly.
Wind - (Without incentives) - 4.35 cents Source
Coal - 3.5-4 cents (per an anti-GW science group) Source
(same article has claim from environmental group that ultimate cost of coal is as high as 8.3 cents per Kwh when you factor in pollution related costs)
I say keep working on wind and start retiring coal. Maybe the wind swept Dakotas are the new Texas oilfields.
DuPage (where I grew up) is trending purple. Lots of previously urban moving out to the burbs and big exurbs like Naperville are creating Dems.
It'll be a battleground in the next few elections. Probably not this one, though.
Spitzer is making a name for himself by taking on all the corrupt institutions one by one. Like Leonard Cohen sang,
Everybody knew that the dice were loaded,
everybody rolls with their fingers crossed,
Everybody knows that the war is over,
Everybody knows the good guys lost
Everybody knows the fight was fixed
The poor stay poor, the rich get rich
That's how it goes
Everybody knows
So what took so freaking long? Why has it taken decades to take on these obviously corrupt institutions? Shouldn't EVERY Attorney General been after these creeps on Wall Street and in the insurance industry and now in the music business?
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I'm sure at the time getting "electric" or "mechanical" wasn't cheap. But those companies that invested in the technology and got the infrastructure put in to support them sure benefitted.
I believe that violates the Geneva Convention.
So yes. Yes, you can.
I just don't get the US's non-participation in this treaty. Cutting pollution is good for the economy. Making green products requires a high level of technological sophistication which is supposed to be our specialty, right? If everyone is getting green and we have the sophisticated products necessary we make money, right?
I guess we'll just have to be happy shipping fibers and scrap metal and timber to Asia and getting back manufactured goods.
200 years ago we were a materials colony and market for a power on the other side of the Atlantic. Now we're a materials colony and market for a power on the other side of the Pacific.
Some progress.
Used to work at Microsoft, eh?
Yes, there are problems, but can you imagine the patch problems Windows would have in Windows Update wasn't out there? Statistically zero home users would apply patches.
The problem is with the OS not the patching system. Get off your high horse.
If you want compliant little robots this is a great system.
Seriously, I know a woman who was actually sat down by her parents and told they were concerned she wasn't having enough fun in college. That's not the kind of kid I want to raise.
Yes, kids get in trouble, but they also grow because of the ways they get out of trouble. If you keep them nice and isolated and know where they are at all times that kid is going to get blindsided hard when he reaches the real world.
If I were in that school out microwave would be in use every time I got a new ID card.
"Gee, I don't know why my ID doesn't show up on your computer. Maybe I put out waves or something?"
I thought the reason outsourcing went to India was that they had high educational standards.
For example, they don't get taught that dinosaur fossils are actually demon bones or that the world began about 10,000 years ago (both real beliefs in many fundie communities).
"Yeah, I was surfing and my computer locked up."
"Lemme see. Well, 'cording to our records you are a heathen. The Lord has seized up your browser."
"What?"
"Get down on your knees and beg forgiveness from the Lord and if your heart is true your IP shall be restored! Pray! Pray for all you're worth, boy!"
Actually, I think it's a good idea, if somewhat revealing. Congratulations, parts of America are now ALMOST as low wage as third world countries. Mission Accomplished.
Did I say I wanted nuclear development to stop? Jesus, shirley, unbunch your panties.
Personally, I'd prefer we work on the technologies that don't cause my Northern Illinois electric bill to be higher than every other damn state in the nation. THAT'S the benefit of nuclear for you.
It's my personal theory that the environmentalists want all the bears to gay marry. Yeah, that's it.
Actually there have been. In at least one instance the truck overturned and slid off the road due to ice. There was no release from the casks. There have been 72 incidents (mostly involving cask sweating from loading) and 11 accidents with transports since the 50's.
My biggest beef about nukes is that we have the highest damn electrical rates in the country because ComEd overbuilt the damn things in Illinois and manage them poorly.
Wind - (Without incentives) - 4.35 cents Source
Coal - 3.5-4 cents (per an anti-GW science group) Source
(same article has claim from environmental group that ultimate cost of coal is as high as 8.3 cents per Kwh when you factor in pollution related costs)
I say keep working on wind and start retiring coal. Maybe the wind swept Dakotas are the new Texas oilfields.
Were you sitting in a big leather wheelchair wearing a monocle and petting a white Persian cat as you typed that post?
How about this - we have no freaking idea what the consequences of a rapid climate change will be.
"Oh crap, we killed all the phytoplankton. Now what?" This is heavy stuff.
Oh come on, you can't build a big Tokamak anywhere. That's something you'd only see in a crackpot nation like... France?
Troll? I see the folks from Mundelein are out in force tonight.
The best part is watching all the trucks deliver and take away the radioactive fuel and waste. Good thing there aren't ever any highway accidents.
I want to like nukes, but Chernobyl shows just how bad an accident could get.
Have big windmill/fans pointing at the nuclear plants so the radioactive steam goes AROUND my house and hits Indiana.
They won't notice.
The Evolution will not be televised.
Open Source, verifiable votes.
Make this a priority now.
DuPage (where I grew up) is trending purple. Lots of previously urban moving out to the burbs and big exurbs like Naperville are creating Dems. It'll be a battleground in the next few elections. Probably not this one, though.
Got to the poll at 6:02, polls opened at 6:00. 70 people in line ahead of me in this dark blue area of a dark blue state.
Are they turning out like that in Texas?
$500 million baby? I can get you one for $143.50 on the Internet.
I'm going to use foul language here. Fuck you, it is not a troll. It's a serious assertion.
An awful lot of the tech budget these days is going into war/espionage activities and worries about security.
Sadly, OBL and terror/the response/overreaction to terror is #1.